Nicolas Dudebout
Vice President at The D. E. Shaw Group
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Dudebout is a seasoned software leader and engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and operating low-latency, production systems for major quantitative finance firms and technology teams. Currently a Vice President at D. E. Shaw after senior engineering and leadership roles at Citadel, Arcesium, and Goldman Sachs, he blends deep systems and Linux expertise with hands-on backend development. He holds advanced degrees from Georgia Tech and CentraleSupélec, bringing a research-informed approach to practical infrastructure challenges. An active open-source contributor, Nicolas has improved developer tooling and workflows in prominent projects like Magit (the widely used Git porcelain for Emacs) and Yesod, highlighting a knack for improving developer experience and build systems. Colleagues note his attention to code quality, maintainability, and subtle usability improvements that pay off at scale.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at CentraleSupélecPhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (26)
git10
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project-management10
build-system10
emacs-lisp10
magit10
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ghc10
version-control10
elisp10
haskell10
echo9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
magit/magit
Nov 2011 - Jun 2013
It's Magit! A Git Porcelain inside Emacs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 11 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the Magit Emacs package, focusing on enhancing its functionality and maintainability. Their work included fixing bugs related to branch management, such as correcting issues with remote branch deletion and improving the behavior of the branch manager. The user also implemented features like adding an option to select the length of abbreviated SHA1s and refined the code related to refreshing the buffer and highlighting to improve user experience. This developer consistently addressed issues and optimized code within the Emacs-based Git porcelain.
emacsmagit
yesodweb/yesod
Nov 2012 - Jan 2013
A RESTful Haskell web framework built on WAI.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas made several contributions focused on improving the build process and code quality of the Haskell web framework. They addressed issues like correcting spelling mistakes and removing trailing empty lines for code cleanup. Their work also involved enhancing the build system by detecting the hsenv environment and incorporating the necessary GHC flags, as well as refining the import statements. Finally, they improved the build process by prepending hsenv arguments instead of appending them.
haskellrestrestfulweb-framework
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